Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781843929352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 558 str.

Fergus McNeill

Opis

Describes and analyses internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and addresses the policy and practice implications of this work within and across jurisdictions. This book is suitable for academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, policy makers, managers interested in offender supervision.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: ‘What’s New and Exciting?’  Part 1: New Directions in Theory  2. Viewing Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation Through the Lens of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model  3. Strengths and Risks: The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation  4. The Desistance Paradigm in Correctional Practice: From Programs to Lives  Part 2: Staff Skills and Effective Offender Supervision  5. Technology Transfer: The Importance of On-Going Clinical Supervision in Translating ‘What Works’ to Everyday Community Supervision  6. Skills and Strategies in Probation Supervision: The Jersey Study  7. Supervision Skills in Juvenile Justice  Part 3: Improving Offender Supervision  8. The Role of Risk, Needs and Strengths Assessment in Improving Supervision  9. Managing Chaos:  Implementing Evidence Based Practices in Correctional Agencies  10. Can Structured Programmes Improve One-to-One Supervision?  11. Beyond Supervision: Judicial Involvement in Offender Management  Part 4: Significant Others and Social Networks  12. It’s Relational: Integrating Families into Community Corrections  13. Justice for All: Family Matters in Offender Supervision  14. Working with Families in Criminal Justice  15. Collaborating with the Community, Trained Volunteers and Faith Traditions: Building Social Capacity and Making Meaning to Support Desistance  Part 5: Offenders’ Compliance with Supervision  16. Compliance with Community Penalties: The Importance of Interactional  18. The Dynamics of Compliance with Offender Supervision  19. Exploring Community Service, Understanding Compliance  Part 6: Offender Supervision in its Contexts  20. The Socio-Political Context of Reforms in Probation Agencies:  Impact on Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices  21. Revising the National Outcomes and Standards for Criminal Justice Social Work Services in Scotland  22. The Purposes of Supervision: Practitioner and Policy Perspectives in England and Wales  23. Pre-Sentence Reports in England and Wales: Changing Discourses of Need, Risk and Quality  24. Supervision in Historical Context: Learning the Lessons of (Oral) History  25. Electronic Monitoring: Towards Integration into Offender Management?  26. Conclusion: Where are we now?

O autorze

Fergus McNeill, Peter Raynor, Chris Trotter